#thousand

Out of the tens of thousands of prosthetic legs they've made, there's never been any 400-meter athletes run under 50 seconds. So, if this was such a technologically advanced prosthetic leg, then how come not everyone's qualifying, or coming close to the qualification time, then? ↗

— Oscar Pistorius

#any #athletes #been #close #come

A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men. ↗

— Plato

#among #born #even #found #hero

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#defeats #going #great #great man #his

Nobody knows through how many thousands of years fighting men have made a place for themselves while the weak and peaceable have gone to the wall. ↗

— Elihu Root

#gone #how #knows #made #many

Stories, as much as we like to talk about them, retrospectively, as emanations of theme or worldview or intention, occur primarily as technical objects when they're being written. Or at least they do for me. They're the result of thousands of decisions made at speed during revision. ↗

— George Saunders

#being #decisions #during #intention #least

Why get married and make one man miserable when I can stay single and make thousands miserable? ↗

— Carrie P. Snow

#get married #i #i can #make #man

Well, we can't afford blindness anymore. There are tens of thousands of thugs who loathe liberty and love death, and want to annihilate Western civilization. ↗

— Tony Snow

#annihilate #anymore #blindness #civilization #death

I just find 'Scooby-Doo' unwatchable. I can't stand it. I like all those other Hanna-Barbera shows about a thousand times more than 'Scooby-Doo.' ↗

— Dana Snyder

#find #i #just #like #more

President Bush remained undeterred by the massive display of American opposition, even though much of it came from the hundreds of thousands of voters who supported him by voting for Nader. ↗

— Jon Stewart

#bush #came #display #even #him

I'm really proud of Twilight. I think it's a good movie. It was hard to do, and I think it turned out pretty good. But I don't take much credit for it. So when you show up at these places, and there's literally like a thousand girls and they're all screaming your name, you're like, why? You don't feel like you deserve it. ↗

— Kristen Stewart

#deserve #feel #good #good movie #hard